Decentralised content moderation describes and potentially advocates for moderation infrastructures in which both the authority and the responsibility to moderate are distributed over a plurality of actors or institutions.
News and Research articles on Platform governance
This study examines the role of Google’s video search in three media diversity areas: format-type diversity, source diversity, and structural-social diversity.
Media pluralism online calls for new policy and regulatory safeguards.
Advertisers’ concerns about “brand safety” and “brand suitability” are an underappreciated influence on social media platforms’ content governance, with concerning implications for social equality and the freedom of public debate online.
Digital Services Act (DSA)
P2B and the missing relational dimensions of the Digital Services Act
This op-ed is part of a series of opinion pieces edited by Amélie Heldt in the context of a workshop on the Digital Services Act Package hosted by the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society on 15 and 16 November 2021 in Berlin. This workshop brought together legal scholars and social scientists to get a better understanding of the DSA
Platform economy
Beyond GAFAM: How size-or-silo regulation fails to account for organisational diversity in the platform economy
This opinion piece argues that current attempts at platform regulation will fall short if they continue to focus on platform size, or if they remain limited to particular normative silos.
This article considers the unique challenges of platform policies aimed at the off-platform misbehaviour of users through the case of Twitch.
How have app stores governed the global app response to the coronavirus pandemic? An exploratory systematic mapping of COVID-19 pandemic response apps.
Platform governance
Too big to fail us? Platforms as systemically relevant
Some platforms become systemically relevant in a crisis, so we need regulation that takes this into account before and during the next crisis.
Intermediary liability
The President and free speech: consequences of Twitter’s fact-checking indication
Since Twitter labelled a tweet by Donald Trump as ‘potentially misleading’ and indicated that it was fact-checking the statement made, the US President signed an ‘ Executive Order'. Amélie Heldt finds that far from being new, the situation illustrates how torn we are when it comes to intermediary immunity or rather liability.
